Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-07-30
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WASHINGTON.
Tom Whites Plum-Day's OPINION
of Church-Cranky Sparks.
Special Correspondence of the INrER-OcEAN.l
WASHINGTON, July 25-Tom White
will be appointed receiver Of the Grand
Forks land office Within few days now.
Tom has been waiting for that plum to
get ripe ever since last December, and
1t slime now for him to have it. A
cool $3,OOOa year is worth picking up,
when ones party is in power, and it
ought to have been given to Thomas
long ago.
The Dakota question, the matter Of
division and admission as two states, is
being talked of here more than ever
before. Constant dropping of water
wears away a stone, and it seems that
the constant agitation of the Dakota
question, for many years, has at last
made an impression upon the stony
popular mind, and caused it to think
and consider. The recent convention
at Huron has been discussedin the east
ern papers, as much as if the new state
were an actual fact. The editorial gen.
tlemen from the east are at last begin
ming to have their eyes opened toward
the New Jerusalem on the prairies. Per-
init me to take a little credit to myself
for having spread broadcast I've the
towns Of the east, my pamphlets of
'sopinions" on the Dakota question,
thereby greatly benefting the territory.
I want this to be remembered, when 1
am running for congress. See?
Those who imagine that the Sioux
Indian reservation is going to be opened
during the next session of congress, will
find themselves greatly mistaken. The
reservation will remain closed until a
sufficient sum Of money may be raised
for the purpose of explaining" to the
congressman the necessity for the bill.
1t will do no good to send men here and
pay their expenses, merely to have
them ask and plead and beg members
to do right and be honest. Missionary
work of that kind is not wanted. Money
makes the congressional mare 60, and
that is all there is in the question.
When Hon. M. H. Day was here last
week, he raised merry sheol with the
cabinet officials, He told them that
he'd a derned sight rather see a Repub
lican administration, and a radical ad
ministration, too, than q hermaphroditic
mugwump administration. He tole
them that unless the whole gang turned
Democrats at once they were likely t.
be turned out in the cold next year
MI. Day voices the sentiments of thu
majority of the Democratic party. Nom
of them like Cleveland, Us q Democrat
but they all praise him as a conserva
tive Mugwump. In the latter capacity
he seems to be a success.
By the way, when Day was here he
did not want his presence to be known
He kept it from all the newspaper
men, but the day he went away one o
his friends mentioned his visit, in tin
presence of a local reporter, and the1
the cat was out Of the bag, and the re
port flew out to Dakota. One thin
happened while Day was here that sur
prised his friends, and that was, h
spoke so we'll of Church. He said tina
Church was one of the best governor
the territory v e had F; but he believed
he could give Ordway points on steal
ing. He is very complimentary indeed
when Church is mention,
Commissioner Sparks still cries fraut
and asks the secretary of the interior
to recommend that congress grant on
hundred additional special agents TO
the purpose of detecting timber depre
dations. Sparks believes that the pu,,
lie domain is being annually raped by
jobbers and sharps, and he intends tt
stop all such nonsense. He started on
with that theory, and he is unable t
teach himself or be taught that he j
mistaken in the slightest degree. II
is the most glaring example of a self
made martyr and hero, this world has
ever had. He imagines himself q hero
ic sufferer for the sake of truth an
honesty. He believes that he is the ma
TONS bulwark against u million lane
thieves. You should see him strut AM
air himself, as he Frances down hi
room, d~escantlng upon his own virtue
and the vices of all other men. Yet
after all, he is a good, honest, sincere
and well meaning old man ; albeit, h
Is off his base.
l have often thought what a goo,
thing it would be for the president t,
have o monograph. 1t would be
grand thing for him to have. You see
ofice.seakers could talk into the ma
chine, and whenever the presiden'
wanted to talk with any of them b,
could just turn the crank and let tn
machine talk. 1t could be set up il
Lannon'S room, and could register al
that is said every day !; and at an.
time during the evening Or night whel